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2026 off to a solid start

Sigh. Free Don Lemon.

There needs to be an effort to monitor for cases where lawful, 1A protected speech gets punished through even small administrative actions like denying enrollment in Global Entry or TSA Pre-Check. We already know that they have publicly slandered peaceful protesters as "domestic terrorists"

Fixing the $12 Billion Lie How Mayor Mamdani Plans to Fix NYC's Existential Budget Crisis—And Why It Affects Every Single American Nationwide

2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.

2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.

Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...

Courage begets courage

Two democratic members of congress being assaulted reminds me of the time Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a restaurant

Just a reminder that both Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost have been attacked this week.

No outrage by right-wing media or even corporate media.

Now imagine if this were done to Republicans.

The entire system is rigged in favor of conservatives, folks. The double standards are just wild.

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

a lot of Democratic officials have asked the protesters to be careful to not "give Trump what he wants" and I think it's fair to ask them to do likewise

The reason I'm so deeply disappointed and frustrated with so many Dems members of Congress - especially leadership - is that they'll post that they're outraged, outraged! And then propose nothing, or worse, propose something so far below the threshold that meets the moment, that it reads as farce

This is an example of a good thread from a Dem politician. Instead of platitudes, we're hearing about specific actions elected officials have/can/are taking.

In Minnesota, Everywhere Is a Front Line What a federal invasion looks like from the inside.

"There is joy in connecting with strangers who love their community the way you do. There is solidarity in a city where every head is on the same swivel. There is hope in people running toward danger, if it means keeping neighbors safe. "

HOLY SHIT. Democrats now have a TWENTY-TWO POINT advantage on the general ballot. Dems had a 14-point advantage leading up to the 2018 election which netted us 41 seats in the House alone.

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

Fight and help win a world war.

Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years.

Blow it all up.

What am I missing?

Family Guy - officer holds up color palette to determine American or foreignness

Minneapolis: facial recognition app being used to detect brown skinned man

When the racist meme becomes national policy

"Look, I know we're on a sinking ship, but I really think the smart thing to do is spend a little time rearranging these deck chairs!"

This has to be one of the dumbest non-solutions I've ever heard in politics or policy. Incredible. Almost comical.

Completely misses the problem. Unworkable in the real world. Nobody invoved with the problem asked for it

No wonder so much of the Democratic base is turned off by our leadership

Set by a 19 year old white suprematist who has been arrested. What an unimaginable & terrifying time we are living through.

Please join me in praying for my city's only synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, which was set on fire in the early morning hours, yesterday.
Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.

Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges

Leveraging the Congressional power of the purse would be more meaningful than pushing for symbolic resolutions on war powers and Trump/Rs need Dem votes yet ...

"both Jeffries and Schumer declined to say whether they would use their authority to rein in ICE."

Where is the leadership?

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris.

In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

The Iraq War parallels are there but Trump has made no functional attempt to justify war or deposing Maduro, let alone make the case to get international support. Doing this without a fight leaf must create space for response by US allies & global governance bodies to condemn & demand accountability

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats The party secured strong gains reminiscent of 2017, our annual review of state legislative results shows. They won multiple new seats in New Jersey, Virginia, Iowa, and Mississippi.

Republicans failed to flip any legislative seats this year, losing ground even in New Jersey, where they had high hopes, and failing to gain several districts that Trump carried last year.

Democrats, meanwhile, flipped 25 seats.

Okay wait. Where do you think most national-level candidates come from?